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This will be the last lecture less official lecture of the Intermediate section.

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And here we're going to talk about realistic growth time.

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So you created already your YouTube channel you're already probably pretty familiar with our YouTube

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channel.

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You have done some videos you have done some editing.

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You are already into it and now you have a question.

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How long it will be that I will not have any views or held if your views or no subscribers or just a

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few subscribers.

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How long it will continue until I will grow.

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And this the question that is very very very very difficult to answer because every single channel is

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completely unique and completely different and every single channel has one thing that is unique to

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those channel.

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Only one thing that is completely unique to this channel as only one thing is you the creator.

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No two channels can have the same creator and they're completely different.

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And it's very difficult to say what is the realistic growth time but let's just try to answer this first

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things.

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Let decide let's define what growth is.

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So many people are very very focused on subscriber numbers.

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OK.

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Like maybe my channel will grow when I will have hundreds subscribers or when I'll have a thousand subscribers

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or hundred thousand subscribers.

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They have arbitrary goals of subscriber numbers but it is very very wrong because subscribers are not

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indicative of your channel's growth your views and your watch time is because there are a lot of channels

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that have a lot of views but not a lot of subscribers.

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And there are a lot of channels with a lot of subscribers but not a lot of use.

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So your channel when you have a lot of views your subscribers will come.

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Subscribers are coming with the viewers but use does not come come with subscribers.

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So you need to understand that views are far more important metric for you and watch time than the subscribers.

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So focus on how many views maybe daily views or month of views if we want to focus you get and then

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watch time because watch time is more like what YouTube is focused on views it what you can be focused

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on the user potentially how many times you are exposed to subscribers and what time is for how long

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you're exposed to subscribers and you divide the growth.

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It should be positive and accelerated.

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That means it should be in plus and you have views and watch them cannot be in minus.

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You cannot lose use and watch them.

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It's practically physically impossible.

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You can lose subscribers though and what why what I mean.

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And the third case in here is that positive and accelerated and should not be just one positive.

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Accelerated means that we should get more and more views with every single coming months that it is

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going through.

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For example if you get 100 hundred used your first month your next month you should get 200 views not

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cumulatively but separate in the second month and each year together it should be 300 views and just

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given an example just an example I should not.

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I'm not saying that you could have the certain amount of views or subscribers and like that just an

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example you see.

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To tell you what acceleration means that month you should get 400 additional views.

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Then another eight hundred etc. etc..

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In this case we're talking about doubling every single month it's accelerates by 2 every single month

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like doubling every single month.

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That's what it should be like not doubling but it should accelerate growth every single time more you

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have more you should gain.

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This is what growth means and here is the answer of the question about a realistic growth time you see

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every channel will grow at its own pace and no two channels even with identical content will have the

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same growth.

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So that means no one and I mean no one can tell you exactly how long it will take for a channel order

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to lease on average how long it will take for a channel to grow.

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No one can tell you if someone will give you some prog prognosis or some like that they're just git.

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They're just coming up with the numbers they don't know exactly.

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Nobody knows because again there is one variable that no one can predict and it is you one variable

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that nobody can predict.

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I can't give you some things that you can expect but and I can't tell you what effects your growth.

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But nobody can tell you when you can grow when you can have hundreds subscribers or hundred views per

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day.

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Nobody can tell you that until you will already get there but I can tell you for sure but it will take

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multiple months or years to realistically see any growth on your channel that any growth that you might

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consider as a good.

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Because 10 views a month you will not consider good results maybe a hundred views a month you'll not

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considered good results and in many cases 10 views a day you will not consider yours as a good results.

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You may consider good results maybe a thousand views a day.

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Maybe I don't know maybe 10 subscribers a day that might be was considered a good results and you will

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not see good results multiple months and by multiple months.

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I don't mean 2 3 months I mean 6 8 9 months minimum.

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I mean an absolute bare minimum.

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If you're doing everything correct and if you're lucky which is very rare for the beginner You Tubers

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in many cases YouTube YouTube's just leave the YouTube of the first three months of YouTube because

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they see very little if any growth on their channel and they just completely turn off and just leave

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because they are focused on numbers more than a producing content.

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That's what kills the youtube channel numbers.

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I need these numbers.

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I want these amount subscribers.

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I want this amount of views.

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This is what kills your YouTube channel.

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You are not focusing on something some numbers because all that you consider as an achievement.

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No we just want numbers.

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You are not focusing on the videos and channel itself.

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You need to create something you wanted to become father or mother not because you want to have an 18

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year old child.

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No it's a process of being a parent of growing together of learning the things together.

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This is the process and the more time will go more time you spend with your child with your kid and

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friends will understand this you are not parent this might be a bit difficult to understand but parental

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consent is more time you spend with your kid the more valuable it becomes and more you know less you

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think about the numbers with this care father how old he is or how heavy he is or how how tall he is

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you don't think about those things.

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Think about the time span you think about what you brought to this world and this is the U.S. should

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treat your YouTube channel in this way as well.

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Yes you want the results.

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Yes.

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And when you work on it when you really work on it really not spending an arbitrarily arbitrary amount

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of hours.

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No just improving with every single video that you will create.

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Then you will have your results.

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You will have your results when you approve and try to improve with every single video that you create.

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You will have results.

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This is guaranteed.

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I know that I'm not allowed officially to just give you a realistic petitions but you will grow if you

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put work and if not enough work.

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If you put work constant work plus your first 6 months to a year your videos will still be crappy enough

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for it to be considered good video so to spend some time in improving them.

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And let's talk about what effects your growth just to give you a realistic understanding of when you

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go through this.

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I came up with five different things that can affect your growth and from red from the get go you will

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see that some things is very difficult to achieve for the beginner YouTube channel.

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And that's why it is difficult to grow the channel.

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Let's just go through them one by one.

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First is that affects your channel growth is of course your channel topic.

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So what your channel is all about and if the channel is about everything and all over play all over

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the place of course it's worse.

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So don't make a channel that is all over the place.

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You need to be very certain topic but the broader the topic is and more popular the topic is more potential

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viewers topic has more competition you will have as well.

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So it will be you will have a lot of potential audience.

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But this a lot of potential audience is already served with a lot of potential creators.

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So we will be very very difficult for you to be seen.

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But if your potential audience is small me the topic is not competitive and or is is very small.

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You will reach your maximum and then you can go nowhere.

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Meaning that if your topic has potential audience of hundred people when you get to hundred people let's

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say one hundred views for your videos.

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There is nowhere else to go and your deeds grows very very slowly locked.

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Audience of the topic not the views.

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There we are slowly.

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Your views will go slowly as well.

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So you need to find a perfect balance between three things.

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The thing that you like and you know that it's together the thing that is that has quite a big audience

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and think that is not competitive.

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That said we need to find and that's most difficult thing in the beginning of the YouTube channel.

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That is a very difficult thing but I'm pretty sure you will find something like that.

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You will not find a perfect thing that you love completely love to do that has no other people creating

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any content and has millions of audience.

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You will not find something like this but you can get as close to perfect as you can.

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Next thing is your skill.

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It's not a skill of the video creation.

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It's a skill of whatever you're doing in your videos.

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If it's an into entertainment meaning how entertaining you are if it's an education how knowledgeable

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you are on a certain topic etc cetera it's your skill the better do you know how to do the thing the

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better it will be for you because your audience will see this right away and they will come to you for

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the advice and for entertainment or civil or whatever you're doing they will know that you know this

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stuff better than most of the people so they will come to you.

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And this affects your growth.

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The next is the quality.

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It is not as big a fact as you might think but it still affects your growth and quality I mean that

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how good your videos are.

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Are you recording with a webcam or Black Magic Pocket cinema 6k.

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Are you recording with the webcam microphone.

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Or let's say sure S.M. 7 be one of the best microphones in the market right now it affects you because

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the higher quality your videos are more tolerant your viewers are too whatever you're doing in your

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video.

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It's not that effective that you might think but it's still had some effect.

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The next is that next to probably.

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Let's start with the number four is that very very difficult thing at first to achieve it.

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It's a number of videos.

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How many videos you have on the channel being that how complete your channel is.

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It is very important thing for your growth being that when people is coming to your video when people

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are somehow stumbles upon your video and first things first.

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Less videos you have it's harder for the people to stumble upon your videos and more the people the

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videos you have it's easier for people stumble upon the videos when people some of a person would stumble

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upon videos and like it and then go go to your channel and see that you only have four videos they will

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immediately think that your not that you were channel is new and you're just creating something they

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will think that you are not creating enough videos.

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These subconscious think right away and they will just go and never come back until you have enough

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videos maybe so you need to have enough videos.

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You need to have constant stream of videos.

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That's why consistency is the key.

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For example we choose to do one day.

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What we do week every single week in just a year will have 52 videos and 52 videos is very very good

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no and more videos you have again more entry points you'll have more search terms you can rank for more

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people.

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More people will find the videos that are interesting they're interested in your topic.

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And higher the chance you'll have more growth and in a first few months you will not have a lot of videos

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as a time will pass as the years will pass.

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You'll have more and more and more and more of your videos that every single video of yours.

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Oil First things first will become better as time will go because you will learn a lot of things and

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you will start seeing and watching your videos in a completely different manner and every single video

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that you created will drive audience.

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Every single video separately will draw audience to your channel as a whole.

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So that's why the number of videos is important and what is very important.

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Which weird enough it is the size of your channel.

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The smaller your channel is the less likely people will subscribe to your channel.

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It's completely nonsense right.

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Like it should not be like that because the big channels they don't need a lot of subscribers but still

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they get thousands of subscribers per day maybe tens of thousands of subscribers that per day and you

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would zero subscribers or very few subscribers you barely get any subscribers in months.

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Is it fair.

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No.

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Is it because YouTube is unfair.

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No.

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It's because human mind is unfair when people are coming to your videos and see a lot of use they subconsciously

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think that OK.

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This might be good because a lot of people are watching this and they're very very forgiving of whatever

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flaws that your videos have.

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And when they see that a lot of videos have a lot of views they are most likely to subscribe to your

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channel because if it's a topic that they want to know about if they come to your channel they're more

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like to subscribe.

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But when they see your video with very little views no matter what the quality.

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No matter how good the video is they see the video that has very little views and they say OK something

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is wrong with this channel.

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Why nobody is watching this videos and they will just not subscribe.

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It's not about everyone.

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Not everyone does this but many does it.

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So counterintuitively you need to have a large channel to grow faster and the smaller channel goes slower.

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That's what kills a majority of the channels in the beginning because a lot of people seeing that bigger

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channels are getting a thousand subscribers.

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They at least expect to get few subscribers a day when they start in a way they do not get it.

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They just completely turn off just do not want to do this anymore.

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Even for a single second because they think that this is a scam and oh nobody can do this or they are

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lying with the numbers blah blah blah blah blah blah view boarding etc etc. because they couldn't do

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it.

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The thing is the truth is is that beginners have the hardest time to grow on YouTube perhaps because

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they are so sold so many people starting on YouTube all at the same time.

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All together and it's like being in a very being seeing very very very very very very very crowded place.

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It's difficult for you to grow and bigger you become less crowded.

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YouTube becomes for you the less crowded.

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So that's why the size affects your growth and overall my friends just don't focus on numbers only focus

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on numbers only reason while you're allowed to focus on numbers is when numbers will help you to grow

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or will help you to understand what is wrong or what is right.

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With your videos because numbers shows you whatever is wrong or right video that's getting more views

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Video is getting with with more much time is right.

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Video getting more subscribers is right.

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That's what Europe must we must focus on.

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Comparatively only between your videos between your videos not anyone else's videos your videos its

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overall growth.

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Time is depending on whatever work you are going to put in to your videos and that amount of work.

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But what kind of work and for how long.

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So this will be it for this one.

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Let's go to the next one.